Tag Archives: task management

Feature Preview: Milestones

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Intervals customers will soon be able to group tasks into a milestone and assign it an owner and a deadline. The home page will be transformed into a calendar view — a scheduling dashboard — tying together tasks starting, tasks ending, milestones, and weekly time tracked. The calendar view will allow customers to quickly reorganize […]

Unconventional Uses for Intervals

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Although Intervals was developed primarily for time tracking and task management for web development, design, IT, and PR firms, we’ve noticed people using it in clever and creative ways. There are businesses who use Intervals to comply with various industry regulations — because it tracks time, task, and project histories so well — such as […]

Lightweight Project Management

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From the very start, before any code was written, we decided Intervals would be a chance for us to refine our philosophy of lightweight project management; time and task tracking coupled with reporting and invoicing. We’d done the heavy lifting in the past, using microsoft project, wallpapering our office with Gantt charts, allocating resources; it […]

Getting decisions into action as soon as possible

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All 30 day trials of Intervals come with one hour of free training included. We have learned a lot during these trainings and questions regularly come up about how we use Intervals to manage our work at Pelago. For example, are there any process tips that might be helpful in addition to how to use […]

Advanced editor with spell check added to emails

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Today we launched a set of minor improvements and enhancements (more contextual cross linkage, a character encoding bug, etc.). Also, the advanced editor is available now when using the “send email message” functionality. The Advanced editor allows you to do bulleted lists, bold, italics, etc. It also features spell check which will save me one […]

Time Management Tips from about.com

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Susan Ward wrote this article on 11 Time Management Tips. Most of us feel maxed out and spread thin these days. I decided to review what she has to say and do a personal assessment on what is working and what is not working in “Managing the chaos”. Susan’s 11 points and how I rate […]